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CVE-2019-3815

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-01-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-401

Description

A memory leak was discovered in the backport of fixes for CVE-2018-16864 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Function dispatch_message_real() in journald-server.c does not free the memory allocated by set_iovec_field_free() to store the `_CMDLINE=` entry. A local attacker may use this flaw to make systemd-journald crash. This issue only affects versions shipped with Red Hat Enterprise since v219-62.2.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: 3.11

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106632
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0201
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3815
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00013.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106632
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0201
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3815
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00013.html

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